Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-01
STATE AFFAIRS.
The Senate Discusses at Length an
Amendment to the Land Bill.
but Takes No Action.
Newspaper Man the Freedom of the
Floor If the House.
A REPORTER EXPELLED.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Ten, Feb. 2S.-When the cali
for resolutions and memorials was in or
der in the House this morning Mr.. Jones
Of PaHOla sent the following resolution to
the clerks table to be read
Whereas, the San Antonio Express has
published repeated communications from
the state capital rejecting on the intelli-
gence, patriotism, decency and manli-
ness Of The Twentieth Legislature, AID
Whereas, the communication watch APP
pegred in the Express OF the 27ah instant
was elimination offalsehood, irdecency
and reportorial mendacity, and base
abuse OF the privileges extended by this
House 10 the representatives Of the press.
Therefore, be II
Resolved by the House of Representa-
lives, that we condemn The course of the
San Antonio Express ia admitting such
malignant falsehoods to its columns; and
be it further
Resolved, that Il. S. Garfield, who is
understood to be the writer OF such libel
Gus articles, be excluded from the repor-
ter's table and from the hall, and that the
dOorkeeper and sergeant-st-arms be in
struCted to refuse him Ambulance.
Mr.. Browning speaking to the resolu-
ton said no man had higher respecI for
the papers of the state than he, but when
reporters were allowed the privilege OF
tables and the freedom of the floor equal
O. the members, aud abused those privi-
legeS, they should no logger he allowed
to remain within the bar of the House.
Mr.. Camp said that this insult of the
27tn was but continuation of the sinr-
GerOus articles that had been published
in the EXPRESS against the Legislature
since it convened, and he thought that
not only the reporter, but the paper also
should be excluded from the House.
The resolution passed by vote CT II
yeas to 81 nays.
Inc following is the extract from tue
San Antonio Express read before the
House of Representatives to-day, the
cause of the resolution Of expulsion:
SIT has been the custom of capital artints
| to photograph previous bodies which
have drawn the peoples money il these
kalsOmlnal halls. Before the dread Yisi n
of the Twentieth they have fallen back
appalled,. Retreating ioreneads, tous
LED hair, unshsven faces, s0ilei
shirts guiitless of collars, white scanned
costs, pants tnat bag st the knees with g
terrible bagginess, shoes which are fash
Toned on the generous principle of the
rOOm-fO r-one-mOre street car, shocking
bad hats and general air of that mclean
illness which is mex. to the devil; lips
stained with tobacco saliva, teeth which
were not, bulge-knuck!ed hands, whose
symmetry is among the sweet might
baye-beens that may not be and high
over ali, first and foremost always
accentusted by wagging heads and their
own involuntary movement, long drawn
out and ponderous ears whose slow
swsying pendulosity marks the inteilec-
tual status of their owners are TOO
much-yes, yes, entirely 200 much-for
any man who ever stopped behind his
terrifying funnel. Consequently thsre
have been none around, that is with q
professional object. One tieeting gisrc1,
one evanescent siZe-up of the geag has
been enough, anu they have turned and
fed never to come back any more.
AN AMENDMENT TO THE LAND BILL
The greater portion of the morning
hour was occupied in the Senate discuss
ing Senator Franks substitute For Sera-
tor Lanes amendment to Senator Nc Don
AIDS land bill. Senator Lanes amendment
raised the number of sections CT pasture
land to be sold to any one person from
four to ten sections. Senator Frank Of
fered substitute to strike out the
paragraph granting the sale of
unwatered lands in any greater
quantity than $40 acres, making it the
limit fT sill lands without respect to
classification. The clause OF the bill to
which this substitute applies limits the
sale OF lands TO actual settlers only, aud
ii he sell or transfer to corporation,
either immediate or remote, it terminates
his title and the land shall be forfeited to
the state without re-entry and become
again psrt of the particular fund 10
which it formally belonged.